Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As far as beach culture goes, it's incredibly difficult to depict the relationship between two of the largest natural forces, the ocean and the atmosphere and the people who live alonside it without having either the people or nature disappear into insignificance. Meyorowitz's magnificent photo "Cold Storage Beach, Truro, 1976" makes a different point where the visitors at the beach are reduced to insect size, and the beach and sku meld as one. Her photographs are not fully realistic, they suggest as much as they show. This is not photography at Coney Island with attention to the activities and expressions of one bather who comes to represent the many. This is even more clear at http://www.in-public.com/autiofolio.html where she has further abstracted her vison to colors, shapes and their placement on her image. They're not too contrasty - she's eliminating information that's unimportant. That a figure is there is important, not who that figure is. That's different from your vision Tina. My opinion for what it's worth. BTW- don't get mad if she didn't use a Leica! Hasselblad gave a prize (and a 501CM) to William Eggleston. I'm sure they'll give her an M7 and I'm sure she'll get to like it. Best Stuart Phillips - -----Original Message----- From: Tina Manley [mailto:images@InfoAve.Net] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:46 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] WOW! At 11:20 AM 8/2/02 -0400, you wrote: >Okay, I don't for a milisecond get what this work has to do with Oskar >Barnack's vision, the decisive moment, or any of the other Leica mythology, >and I have to say I even suspect it was shot digitally....but all that >cynicism aside - along with the fact that I usually don't like this sort of >work - > >This stuff is F*&($%g amazing! > >B. D. > She also won "Picture of the Year" from the Missouri School of Journalism for the photo of the dog walking out of the photo with the rainbow over the beach. I don't get it. The underwater ones are nice but most of the others look like snapshots. The ones on her website http://www.in-public.com/autiofolio.html all look underexposed and too contrasty. Can somebody explain why these photos are exceptional? Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com images available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html